The Honduran Resistance Wins the Elections!

The Honduran Resistance Wins the Elections!!!

As
the polling booths closed this evening in Honduras, there
didn't need to be a vote-count to declare the winners. With
an abstention rate of at least 65%, the people in resistance
have the overwhelming majority.

The National Resistance
Front Against the Coup said in a press conference at 4.30pm
that the dictatorship has been soundly defeated by such a
small turnout that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal had to
extend the voting by one hour in an attempt to get more
votes.

"They were raffling off home appliances such as
fridges, and even houses, for those who voted in an attempt
to get them into the booths," informed Rafael Alegria of Via
Campesino.

Monitoring by the National Resistance showed
the level of abstention was at least 65%, the highest level
of abstention in the history of Honduras.

"In this way the Honduran
people have punished both the candidates and the
dictatorship, who are now in a tight spot to try to
demonstrate a mandate that doesn't exist," said Rodil Rivera
Rodil, lawyer and member of the Nationa Resistance Front who
read the press release.

Contrary to coup-sponsored
electoral observer reports of a peaceful election, the days
leading up to, and of, the 'electoral farce' were
characterised by repression and violence in many places,
particularly resistance strongholds such as San Pedro Sula
where resistance members were beaten, injured, and detained,
and one is reported to be disappeared. Among the injured is
a Reuters reporter, and two religious workers from the Latin
American Council of Churches working as human rights
observers were detained.

There have also been reports of
rapes, beatings and detentions from other districts, which
human rights groups will be following up in the days to
come.

"They have put civilian clowns in office to put a
clean face on the military coup," commented Bertha Oliva,
Director of the Centre for Families of the Disappeared and
Detained of Honduras (COFADEH).

Despite protestations to
the contrary by the international corporate media, there is
a wealth of photographic and first hand accounts from the
polls - including documents shown to international observers
by polling booth staff - that the turnout was considerably
less than 50%, and in the northern part of the country, less
than 20%.

The only winners in this electoral circus are
the Honduran people and the resistance movement, who intend
to celebrate with a victory march in Tegucigalpa tomorrow,
30 November.

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